With assistance and input from students and UC’s basic needs community of practice, the Center for Economic Justice and ...

It’s hard to perform well in school when you are hungry or homeless. To help combat these grave difficulties, a policy (AB 132) went into effect last year requiring California colleges to establish ...

When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. She was also 25 years old and an undocumented immigrant from Peru. She’d spent ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In his famous paper, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed a ...

coordinating with campus and community partners, identifying community resources available to students, communicating with students about and connecting students to resources for which they may be ...

Support the center in a way that works for you, from volunteering to financial donations. The Basic Needs Center accepts donations of food and personal care items to stock the Buff Pantry and mobile ...

Wittenberg University’s Campus Cupboard and Wittenberg Wardrobe live in a single facility, providing students with food, personal items and professional clothing as needed to help remove a barrier to ...

Students in today’s world at all ages need basic requirements to receive and gain their full academic potential. Some of those needs include a stable environment to complete homework and obtaining ...

For low-income households, it’s no surprise that a large proportion of their spending goes to basic needs, such as housing and food, while high-income households have traditionally had more ...

Branching from the Volunteer Resource Center, the volunteer program for the Basic Needs Center had a head start developing our relationships. We have strong ties with the Community Food Share food ...